Life Below Water
This next series of videos focus on some important topics regarding life below water. Between humans polluting the water and climate change affecting our oceans, we need to take better …
Course: Soft Skills for Navigating Global Challenges
Reflection Task: Climate Change
After watching the videos in previous steps, please complete this reflection task. Remember to keep all of your reflection tasks in a notebook, journal, or as printed documents for your …
Climate Action
Climate change is becoming more serious by the day. We have placed a link to the most recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) below and …
Introduction to Meditation
In addition to embodiment and mindfulness, meditation is also an extremely helpful competency for you to develop. Meditation helps you maintain your balance throughout your busy day, and can help …
Reflection Task: AI and Machine Learning
After watching the videos in previous steps, please complete this reflection task. Remember to keep all of your reflection tasks in a notebook, journal, or as printed documents for your …
AI, Robotics and Quantum Computing
The first video in this section talks about some of the major technology trends that are on the horizon including additive manufacturing and the like. You should be aware of …
Reflection Task: Mindfulness
After watching the videos in previous steps, please complete this reflection task. Remember to keep all of your reflection tasks in a notebook, journal, or as printed documents for your …
Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a key soft skill that you should practice on a daily basis. Mindfulness is defined as “a way of being that grows out of paying attention, on purpose …
Introduction to Global Trends
In this section we take a look at three videos that are related to global trends. The first is a video from the World Economic Forum introducing the concept of …
Reflection Task: Embodiment
After watching the videos in previous steps, please complete this reflection task. Remember to keep all of your reflection tasks in a notebook, journal, or as printed documents for your …
Introduction to Embodiment
This week will focus on the fact that corporations and businesses, particularly in the high-tech sector, are very focused on ensuring their employees are mentally, emotionally and physically healthy. Many …
Embodiment
We are going to finish out the soft skill portion of Meeting Global Challenges with a return to embodiment practices. We hope that as you looked at major global and …
Embodiment Practice
The first video features our faculty member Banafsheh Sayyad. Feel free to stand up and follow along as Banafsheh leads you through an embodiment exercise that you can do anywhere …